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Contextualism, also known as epistemic contextualism, is a family of views in philosophy which emphasize the context in which an action, utterance, or expression occurs. Proponents of contextualism argue that, in some important respect, the action, utterance, or expression can only be understood relative to that context. [ 1 ]
Peter Ludlow (/ ˈ l ʌ d l oʊ /; born January 16, 1957), who also writes under the pseudonyms Urizenus Sklar and EJ Spode, is an American philosopher.He is noted for interdisciplinary work on the interface of linguistics and philosophy—in particular on the philosophical foundations of Noam Chomsky's theory of generative linguistics and on the foundations of the theory of meaning in ...
Teaching Theory of Knowledge – Marjorie Clay (ed.), an electronic publication from The Council for Philosophical Studies. An Introduction to Epistemology by Paul Newall, aimed at beginners. A Summary of Sunni Epistemology A concise and accessible introduction to epistemology in the Muslim world for laymen
The theories within the philosophy of education can also be subdivided based on the school of philosophy they belong to. Various schools of philosophy, such as existentialism , pragmatism , Marxism , postmodernism , and feminism , have developed their own perspective on the main issues of education.
The Pepper papers, a symposium on the meta-philosophy of Stephen C. Pepper: Root metaphor theory (Special issue). ... Contextualism: The world view of behavior ...
Richard Schechner, Essays on Performance Theory, 1976/2004; Arthur Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art, 1981; Noël Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart, 1990; Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe: On The Foundations of the Representational Arts, 1990
Contextual learning is based on a constructivist theory of teaching and learning. [1] [page needed] Learning takes place when teachers are able to present information in such a way that students are able to construct meaning based on their own experiences. Contextual learning experiences include internships, service learning and study abroad ...
In addition to working on skepticism as a theoretical problem, Williams has a strong interest in the historical development of the skeptical tradition and defends the view that skeptical arguments in modern and contemporary philosophy differ in fundamental ways from similar or related arguments developed in antiquity.